Trismegistus

Being a list of the movies, podcasts, television, and tabletop and computer games I completed, live shows I went to, and albums I purchased, in 2024.

2024 Multimedia List

Movies

A Christmas Story

Coded Bias

Colossal

Deadpool 2

Deadpool & Wolverine

Mad Max: Furiosa

National Lampoon Christmas Vacation

Palm Springs

Surveilled

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Podcasts

Am I Broken: Season 4 Episode 2

Master: The allegations against Neil Gaiman

Live Music

And So I Watch You From Afar

Beck & the National Symphony Orchestra

Caspian

Cat Power

CSS

Dance With The Dead

Dandy Warhols

Disturbed

Djunah

Elder

Ex-Pilots

Falling in Reverse

The Hu

Iron Maiden

Korine

Live

Modest Mouse

Nils Hoffman

Nora En Pure

Opeth

Pixies

PJ Harvey

Russian Circles

Soul Asylum

Sleater-Kinney

Stone Temple Pilots

Sultan & Shepherd

Tinlicker

Tribulation

Tool

Live Shows

AEW Dynamite (December)

AEW Rampage (December)

AEW Collision (June)

AEW Dynamite (June)

The Hebridean Baker

Tabletop Games

4bidden Words

Cribbage

D&D: The Stygian Gambit

Hues & Cues

Magic the Gathering: Brotherhood Agents

One Night Werewolf

The Resistance

Stifling Dark: Lumber Yard (villain 1)

Stifling Dark: Lumber Yard (villain 2)

Television

AEW: Revolution

AEW/RoH: Forbidden Door

Adventure Time: Season 5

Adventure Time: Season 6

Adventure Time: Season 7

Dragon Prince: Book 5

DragonStrike

Good Omens: Season One

Good Omens: Season Two

Good Omens: Season Two (rewatch)

He-Man: Masters of the Universe — Revolution

The Night Agent

Our Flag Means Death: Season Two

The Owl House: Season 2

Ren Faire

Say Nothing

Computer/Console Games

Samorost

Wordle

Albums Acquired

Afro Celt Sound System - Volume 2: Release

And So I Watch You From Afar - Jettison

And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna

Black Doldrums - In Limerance

Blondie - The Real Real Girl

The Bothy Band - Out of the Wind, Into the Sun

The Bronzed Chorus - Gleaming

The Bronzed Chorus - I'm The Spring

Joe Burke - The Tailor's Choice

Chery Glazzer - I Don't Want You Anymore

CHVRCHES - Screen Violence

Brian Conway & Tony DeMarco - Apples In Winter

Crows - Beware Believers

Crows - Reason Enough

Crows - Silver Tongue

Clarissa Connelly - Tech Duinn

Dandy Warhols - The Black Album

Dandy Warhols - This Machine

Deanta - Ready For The Storm

Deanta - Whisper of a Secret

Delain - Dark Waters

Delain - Moonbathers

Todd Denman - A Celtic Peace

Todd Denman - Soustice

Disturbed - The Sickness

Liz Doherty - Let Scotland Flourish

Drones & Bellows - The Dancing Dog

Elder - Dead Roots Stirring

Elder - Innate Passage

Elder - Lore

Elder - Spires Burn/Release

Elderbrook - Simmer Down

Elderbrook - Travel Slow

The End of the Ocean - In Excelsis

Escape-Ism - Rated Z

Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

Explosions In The Sky - The End

Filska - A Thousand Miles Away

Julie Fowlis - Allt

Garbage - Bleed Like Me

Martin Garrix - Bylaw

Martin Garrix - Seven

Frankie Gavin - The Master's Return

Geraldine Cotter - Traditional Irish Tunes (Disc 1)

Geraldine Cotter - Traditional Irish Tunes (Disc 2)

Gesaffelstein - Hyperion

Gesaffelstein - Novo Sonic System

Giolì & Assia - Fire, Hell, and Holy Water

Giolì & Assia - Moon Phases

God Is An Astronaut - Embers

Gothminister - Gothic Electronic Anthems

Gothminister - Happiness in Darkness

S.C. Hamilton - The Irish Flute Player's Handbook

Heilung - Lifa Iotungard

The House Band - Another Setting

The House Band - October Song

The House Band - Rockall

Michal Hromek - Celtic Guitar

Hyper - Control

Keane, Connolly, McGorman - Keane, Connolly, McGorman

Brendan Keenan - Brendan Keenan

Le Castle Vania - Himmel und Hölle

Le Castle Vania - Prophication

Le Castle Vania - Troubletron

Le Castle Vania - Nobody Gets Out Alive

Annie Lennox - Diva

Lights & Motion - Bloom

Lights & Motion - Chronicle

Lights & Motion - Dear Avalanche

Lights & Motion - Reanimation

Lilt - Onward

Lleuwen - Gwin Gan Beibl Budr

Robbie MacGowran - The Irish Way

Maeve MacKinnon - Don't Sing Love Songs

Cathal McConnell - Long Expectant Comes At Last

Cathal McConnell & Roger Morton - An Irish Jubilee

Ted McGraw - Mostly Set Dances

Ted McGraw - Tunes

Ted McGraw - More Tunes

Ted McGraw - Irish Waltzes

Ted McGraw - Scottish Waltzes

Ted McGraw - Square and Contra Dance Tunes

Ted McGraw - Concertina

Therese McInerney & Marian Curtin - The Youth That Belonged To Miltown

Justin Mylo - What I Am Looking For

Thomas O'Canainn - The Pennyburn Piper

Sinead O'Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra

Conal O'Grada - An Fheadog Mhor

Jerry O'Sullivan - The Invasion

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Opeth - Damnation

Pádraic Keane, Páraic Mac Donnechadha, Maedara Ó Faoláin - Beo

Poliça - Lipstick Stains / Still Counts

Ruefrex - Flowers For All Occassions

Russian Circles - Gnosis

Sean Ryan - Siuil Uait

Sarasara - Elixir

Sarasara - Orgone

Shallowhalo - Connection

Scottish Rogues - Scottish Rogues

*Shels - Laurentian's Atoll

*Shels - Plains of the Purple Buffalo

*Shels - Sea of the Dying Dhow

*Shels - Wingsfortheirsmiles

Sylvaine - Eg Er Framand

Tuesday the Sky - The Blurred Horizon

Tuesday the Sky - Drift

Tusks - Gold

Underworld - Beaucoup Fish

Unwed Sailor - Live at Commvess

Unwed Sailor - Mute the Charm

Unwed Sailor - Tour EP 2011

VA - Masters of the Irish Harp

Fintan Vallely - Traditional Irish Music

Catriona Watt - Cadal Cuain

Year Of No Light - Mneme

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...it's just that life these days is pretty much Baldur's Gate 3. To the tune of I'm going to reach the 400 hours played mark by the end of next week.

So strap in or set your phasers on ignore, because this DW is probably going to be all BG3 all the time for the foreseeable future.( Read more... )

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...makes a post!

Job stuff! February found me commuting to a new worksite that requires 2+ hours in the car each day, which has significantly cut down on the leisure time things I'm able to do in a day. That said, the work is awesome, and I'm having a blast doing it while I'm onsite.

Concerts! This time, Falling in Reverse and Disturbed.

I knew more about the drama surrounding Falling in Reverse (even predating the Paige/Suraya connection) than I did their music, which turned out to be...fine. It wasn't bad in a concert venue setting but also wasn't anything distinguished enough that I'd seek it out again on my own. What did distinguish the band was the lead singer publicly berating a member of his stage crew, at length and by name, after something apparently went wrong toward the end of the show. Like, dude, you have just generated a lot of sympathy from me for someone, and it isn't you. Super gross and unnecessary, particularly when it became clear the lead singer wasn't even capable of generating entry-level stage patter to fill the silence after he'd finished dropping f-bombs on the stage hand.

Disturbed, on the other hand, was excellent as ever. We'd seen them live last summer (with Jinjer and Breaking Benjamin), so the stage set and much of the set list were pretty familiar, but man they put on a good show. Just a ton of energy and excitement, which is exactly what I wanted from the experience. The audience energy was great: people were as into it as we were.

Side note: the Baltimore concert tee bootleggers' game is fabulous. Por ejemplo: they didn't even bother to photoshop out the vendor "low tix" warning icons out of screencap they used for the dates on their Disturbed bootleg tee. These guys dngaf and it's great.

Bonus beer: We had dinner at The Brewer's Art, whose Resurrection abbey brown ale I'm a big fan of. The food was great and so were the other beers, particularly their GPT green peppercorn trippel and Daytrip to Yorkshire English old ale.

Building Bullshit! Has been so egregious and frequent I've stopped posting about it as it happens. Suffice to say that the building was on fire three times in February, the upstairs tenants flooded our kitchen and closet again when they got high and failed to turn off the faucet in their kitchen again, and our bathroom flooded again after the management company failed to fix the crumbling pipes in our again. We called maintenance at 3:00 in the afternoon when we came home and discovered the problem, but wouldn't you know? The maintenance number listed on the building website and provided to the concierge and answering service was wrong—as has been the case since January when the building manager was first notified of the issue.

But wait! There's more!

On top of that, the management company erroneously sent out notices informing tenants that we hadn't paid rent and that the management company was going to initiate eviction proceedings, again. (Seriously, this is the third time this has happened in the last six months, and the notices to go pretty much everyone in the building, including people like us who religiously pay rent on the 1st of each month.)

This is especially ironic given that the management company didn't think to position the cameras they finally agreed to install in the lobby in such a way as to cover the rent drop box, which was robbed. (Following the robbery, the management company helpfully sent letters to tenants saying that we were responsible for making sure management company received our rent on time, would need to submit payment again if our payments were among those stolen from the rent drop box, and that tenants were responsible for assuming any costs associated with cancelling checks that had been stolen from the rent drop box, which management suggested that we do.

TL;DR—you would think that after this, the management company would reposition the cameras to cover the rent drop box.

WELL. THEY DID NOT.

And it was robbed again. Rinse, repeat. Following this, the management company informed tenants that they were doing away with the rent drop box and that everyone would have to submit payments electronically in the future. This is fine for us, but not for other folks in the building, for specific reasons. Following intervention from the Tenants' Association and city authorities, the management company has informed us that they will be installing a new rent drop box behind the concierge desk. Hopefully they don't put it in a camera blindspot this time.

D&D! Season Three of Oldest D&D Group's homebrew campaign reconvened. The party continues to be as ineptfective as ever. Por ejemplo: across two sessions, we somehow ended up guarding a caravan, ambushed the brigands who were trying to ambush us and defeated them by, among other things, conjuring octopi to drop on their heads, lost half the caravan to hobgoblin raiders, and then ended up with twice as many wagons after we raided the raiders, in a process that happened to involve polymorphing various party members into horses and setting a lot of things on fire.

Second Oldest D&D Group's Saltmarsh campaign reconvened, with a marathon seven-hour battle session that honestly was a bit of a slog, at least for me. (I'm the only player in the group who doesn't use my phone during sessions. In a bid to get the others to pay attention, the DM gave them four additional units to control. This did not lead to less phone usage but resulted in my having one attack per the other players' three to nine, each turn. Ugh.) Things picked up in the following sessions, however, once the DM rebalanced the play mechanics. Subsequent sessions have featured a lot of great combats against some pretty tough critters, as well as the chance use do outside-the-box tactics to defeat them.

D&D Pt. II! We randomly ran into two of the players from Third Oldest D&D Group while out preparing for Geek BBQ Mardi Gras (for which, see below). This group's campaign has been on hiatus since last summer, but will be starting back up again. That was welcome news. Furthermore, as it's an online campaign, I hadn't actually seen these guys in the flesh since the Beforetimes, so it was delightful to have run into them.

D&D Pt. III! Boy, I was not in the headspace to handle BG3 last summer. Last month, I jettisoned my previous games and started fresh. I am definitely in the headspace for it now. I'm really enjoying the tie-ins to Escape from Avernus, and wondering whether any of the Shar/Selûne stuff that's being hinted at ties back in any way to Shar/Selûne developments in BG/BG2 EE. Also, holy crap, this is a great game.

Deadpool 3 Trailer Release Party! Which also apparently involved some sort of major sporting event? IDEK. 😛 At any rate, the food and company were fabulous. I brought a ginger carrot miso dip that people seemed to really like, and people really liked the Aslin sour—Durango Doug—we brought.

Bonus beer: I also picked up a four-pack of Aslin's Orchid imperial stout + vanilla that may be one of my favorite things they've done since Padrino.)

Gaelg! The mid-February holiday meant I was actually able to join in to an online speaking thing. It was exceptionally fun, especially because this is one of the nichest of my niche interests. (Prior to a few years ago, I figured this was a language I would never actually get to, you know, speak to anyone with.) It's weirdly one of the languages I find most intuitive, and I was able to make some decently complex sentences. I got complements on my accent, too. And again, it's just a bunch of fun to be actively using it.

Geek BBQ! Following on the heels of Geek BBQ Friendsgiving, Geek BBQ whiskey white elephant, and Geek BBQ dessert potluck, Geek BBQ put together a Mardi Gras potluck. The music was excellent, the decorations were excellent, and I probably ate my body weight in homemade jambalaya and gumbo. Very good stuff with a very good group of people.

Ice Skating 2.No! Geek BBQ friend called out of the blue one morning to invite us to a free skate at the ice complex. We were skeptical we'd be able to make it in time but were ultimately won over by friend's enthusiasm. Fast forward a hectic 40 minutes later when friend called back to say that they + friend 3 weren't going after all. Luckily, we had not actually paid for the skate yet. We had, however, jettisoned our lazy day in to trek out to the suburbs. What to do? We ended up having brunch at a favorite old venue, which happened to be showing a Scotland vs. Wales rugby match to a probable majority of the area's very enthusiastic fans. It was great energy and a lot of fun.

Karaoke! We decided to eat dinner at a newly opened Thai place before going to Geek BBQ. The food was excellent. We were the only people in the place aside from the server and the manager, who coincidentally happened to be there. Which was amazingly fortuitous and cool, because they invited us into the basement, which they had converted into a karaoke bar, and we got to sing. For free. Whatever and for as long as we wanted. I knocked out a significant portion of Roxette's back catalogue and it was spectacular.

LNY! We went out for dim sum with second oldest D&D group. Our intended destination was a bust (pro tip: do not try to go eat somewhere in a busy shopping center during a major holiday where the parking lot has been converted into stages, seating, and booths). Luckily, we knew of a second dim sum place nearby with really great food, went there, and ate ourselves silly.

What's my language progress look like?

This month I primarily blew through the supplementary hangeul lessons. These are surprisingly useful because I learned Korean directly through hangeul, which means that I never actually learned how to romanize it.

• Chinese — 1/5 through Unit 5; legendary through Unit 2
• Dutch — 4/5 through Unit 3; legendary through Unit 1
• Gaelic — 4/5 through Unit 6; legendary through Unit 3
• Hindi — 1/2 through Unit 2; backburnered until I wrap up a physical textbook
• Indonesian — 1/5 through Unit 11; legendary through Unit 6
• Japanese — 1/5 through Unit 21; legendary through Unit 16
• Korean — 1/2 through Unit 8; legendary through Unit 5
• Latin — 4/5 through Unit 2; legendary through Unit 1
• Welsh — 1/2 through Unit 1; backburnered in favor of a physical textbook

これで以上です。

Another wrap-up post? Sure, why not. I'm only listing media I actively consumed and finished (i.e., no movies on in the background, no games or television series still in progress, no podcasts where I cherrypicked specific episodes to listen to).

Given everything that went down, I really didn't have the attention span or joy in imagination to consume much visual media in the latter half of the year, but that means there's just more for me to wrap up this year. On the flip side, it was a pretty good year for live music (and we didn't even get to half of the shows we were interested in seeing).

I may come back at some point and add notes or thoughts about each, but for starters, let's just get the list down.

Movies

Ant Man: Quantumania

The Banshees of Inisherin

Barbie

A Christmas Story

Dungeons & Dragons

Flash

Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

National Lampoon Christmas Vacation

Oppenheimer

The Room

Scrooged

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse

Spotlight

올빼미

TV

Adventure Time: Season 3

Adventure Time: Season 4

Last Week Tonight: Season 10

Legend of Vox Machina: Season 2

Loki: Season 2

Ms. Marvel

The Owl House: Season 1

Ragnarok: Season 1

Werewolf by Night

Podcasts

30for30: Bikram

Computer/Console Games

Wordle

Live Music

100 Gecs

311

Asking Alexandria

Beck

Bush

Breaking Benjamin

Candlebox

Cherry Glazrr

Cold War Kids

Collective Soul

Dandy Warhols

Disturbed

Explosions in the Sky

Fear Factory

Fever Ray

Filter

Franz Ferdinand

Garbage

Godsmack

The Hu

I Ya Toyah

Jinjer

Live

Live (unplugged)

Machinegirl

Matt & Kim

Metric

Mix Master Mike

Mushroomhead

No Second Troy

Noel Gallagher's Flying Circus

Paul Okenfold

Phoenix

Pixies

Stabbing Westward

Staid

Static-X

Silversun Pickups

Toni Smooth

Visors

Walkaways

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Live TV

AEW Dynamite

AEW Rampage

Tabletop Games

The Captain Is Dead

Delta Green one-shot

D&D Delian Tomb homebrew campaign

D&D Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

D&D Feywild homebrew campaign

D&D Homebrew campaign: Season 2

D&D Spelljammer homebrew campaign #1

D&D Spelljammer homebrew campaign #2

D&D Spelljammer Jpop homebrew campaign playtest



これで以上です。

Covering the first five months of the year.

( Doing. )


( Playing. )


( Reading. )


( Watching. )


( Writing. )

これで以上です。

For anyone new to my DW who wants a bit of context, this post should help orient you. Feel free to comment or subscribe at will (and introduce yourself, if you like!) Pretty much everything I post aside from in-progress drafts is unlocked.

In general, I post about:

My Current Obsessions: Baldur's Gate 3, Whisper of Ravens

My Forever Fandoms Baldur's Gate, Blake & Avery, Discworld, Farscape, Fullmetal Alchemist, The Goblin Emperor, Imperial Radch, Lord of the Rings, Onmyoji, The Queen's Thief, Saiyuki, Silver Diamond, X-Files

My Fandoms of One: Akitsuki Koh's manga and novels, Paraic O'Donnell's The House on Vesper Sands, Naono Bohra's manga, Sugiura Shiho's 終点unknown

My Old Flames: Adventure Time, Bleach, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Castlevania, D-Gray.man, Death Note, Destiny, Dredd, Final Fantasy, Firefly, Good Omens, Harry Potter, Magnus Archives, MCU, Our Flag Means Death, Samurai Flamenco, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Vampire Chronicles, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, Welcome to Night Vale

My Enduring Interests AEW, Anime, BL & danmei, Books, Calligraphy & fountain pens, Foreign language learning, Gardening, Irish traditional music, Manga, Roleplaying games, Tabletop gaming, Tarot, Yoga

My What Am I Reading Wednesday posts are here and my fanfic is here. Maybe one day I'll add my early orphaned works to my account.

2025 Multimedia List

Movies

Thunderbolts*

Podcasts

Live Music

A Perfect Circle

Babymetal

Black Veil Brides

Breaking Benjamin

Gossip

Mogwai

Primus

Pucifer

Solas

Staind

Tycho

Live Shows

Tabletop Games

Television

Adventure Time: Season 8

Adventure Time: Season 9

Adventure Time: Season 10

Dragon Prince: Book 7 - Dark

Computer/Console Games

Beers

21st Amendment - Hell or High Watermelon wheat

Aleworks Brewing - Coffeehouse milk stout

Allagash Brewing Company - Allagash White witbier

Anxo - East Coast Dry Cider

Alsin - Maybe Shark IPA

Aslin - Ontario IPA

Atlas Brew Works - The Precious One apricot IPA

Atlas Brew Works - Silent Neighbor stout

Beale - Peach Tea blonde ale

Bishop - Brown ale

Bishop - Red ale

Brewer's Art - Resurrection brown ale

Brouwerij de Halve Maan - Straffe Hendrik quadrupel

Brouwerij Verhaeghe - Duchesse Cherry Flanders red ale

Brouwerij Verhaeghe - Duchesse sour ale

Citystate - Kingman Extra stout

DC Brau - Auld Dubliner amber ale

Dewey - Frostberry Festival fruit beer

Guinness - Draught Stout

Honor Brewing - Silent Wings coffee brown ale

Magic Hat - #9 IPA

Oliver - Drink Me, I'm Irish Nitro dry Irish stout^

Oxbow - La Roma saison

Port City - Monkspell tripel

Potter's - Passionfruit Mosaic cider^

Right Proper - Shortest Night Baltic porter

Saints Row Craft Collective - Dark Necessities imperial coffee milk stout

Strongbow - dry cider

Three Notch'd - Watermelon Gose

Victory - Golden Monkey Belgian tripel

Albums Acquired

Adwaith - Bato Mato

Adwaith - Melyn

Adwaith - Solas

Isaac Anderson & Dylan Foley - The Palace Sessions

Ar Log - Y Ddwy Chwaer

Arcade Fire - Pink Elephant

Jesse Autumn & Friends - California Celt

Blondie - The Best of Blondie

Ronan Browne & Peter O'Loughlin - The Legacy

Bush - Golden State

Joe Byrne - Uilleann Piping from County Kildare

CAIN - The Collection: 2014-2019

CAIN - Lineage

CAIN - Moran

Nuala agus Tomás Ó Canainn - Beal Na Tra

Tomás Ó Canainn - the Pennyburn Piper Presents Uilleann Pipes

Ceoltoiri - Celtic Lace

Clannad - Fuaim

Cran - The Crooked Stair

Dylan Foley & Dan Gurney - Irish Music From the Hudson Valley

Deep Forest - Comparsa

The Dubliners - Jigs Reels & Hornpipes

Four Men and a Dog - Wallop the Spot

Ray Gallen - Man of the House

Giungla - Distractions

GLOIN - All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)

Gossip - Real Power

Gráinne Hambly - Golden Lights and Green Shadows (second copy)

Gráinne Hambly - The Thorn Tree

Gravity Kills - Perversion

PJ Harvey - All About Eve

PJ Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying

Helicon - God Intentions

Helicon - Live in London

Heilung - Lifa Iotungard

HELGA - Wrapped in Mist

Hiroe - Wield

Hò-Rò - Hex

Sayaka Ikuyama - Light

Invernalia - Sol Invictus

James Keane - With Friends Like These

Jinjer - Duél

Kilbride - Kilbride

Knacker's Yard - Jigs and Reels

Lambrini Girls - You're Welcome

Lilt - X

Iarla Ó Lionáird - Invisible Fields

Iarla Ó Lionáird - Seacht gCoiscéim na Trocaire

London Grammar - The Greatest Love

The Lonely Island - Incredibad

The Lonely Island - The Wack Album

Colm Mac Coniomaire - Cúinne an Ghiorria

Robbie MacGowran - Basically

Tom McGonigle & Robbie McGouran - Road Map of Ireland

Joe McHugh - AIRLA

Joe McHugh & Barry Carroll - An Mhéar Fhada

Mick Moloney & Silvia Woods - Young Turlough

Nite - Darkness Silence Mirror Flame

Laurence Nugent - Traditional Irish Music On Flute And Tin-whistle

Laurence Nugent - Two for Two

Kim Robertson - The Spiral Gate

Roehind - Buile

Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out

Royksopp - The Understanding

Ruefrex - Flowers For All Occasions

Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine

Solas - The Edge of Silence

Spell Songs - Spell Songs II: Let the Light In

Alan Stivell - Ar Pep Gwellañ

Sweeney, Carlos, McCartin - The One After It

Sweeping Promises - Good Living Is Coming For You

Sweeping Promises - Hunger for a Way out

Thou - Umbilical

Trian - Trian

VA - Celtic Brittany

Väsen - Rule of 3

Pat Walsh - Simply Whistle

Wardruna - Birna

これで以上です。

...my life has been ( consumed by puzzles. )

Before I had any idea that November 7 was going to be anything other than A Day, I engaged in a marathon ( stress clean of the living spaces. )

These efforts were assisted today by the delightful ( surprise acquisition of another shelf. )

And finally, last week's ( language learning. )

これで以上です。

My household reached ( peak coronavirus living. )

On the RPG front, our online homebrew campaign continues to exceed the heights of last month's epic three-hour in-game shopping extravaganza as the party accidentally seduces random NPCs with terrible saving throws and sets pretty much everything we encounter on fire. As a character whose fault is "makes jokes at inappropriate times," I am uniquely positioned to capitalize on this, and boy do I make hay.

I've also used the pandemic's reduction in diversions to catch up on AEW and oh man, it continues to be everything I love about wrestling: great storylines, great matches, and while I have mixed feelings about Jericho as a wrestler, as a commentator he is an absolute delight and I would tune in each week on the strength of that alone.

But then you combine Jericho with the puro resu shenanigans/awesomesauce that Kenny Omega et al. are bringing, and it's just that. Much. Better.

And on top of all that, ( Brodie Lee continues to kill it with his promos. )

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I spent the long weekend binge eating Indian home cooking and sipping 8th Wonder's Rocket Fuel porter, which is pretty excellent as far as long weekends go.

I also got my hands on this:

which we declined to buy at our local game store two years ago because it was heavy(!!) and we wanted to walk home--a decision we have rued ever since. This particular copy is a Giftmas gift that was delivered to a friend of the GC’s through a shipping misfire. We were finally able to collect it this weekend and cart all 22 pounds of it through the airport and multiple modes of public transit, where it attracted the attention of metro staff and the women at the check-in counter who (no joke) made us unbox it for them. And apparently the TSA, who unboxed it again at some point after we sent it on its way to the belly of the airplane. D:

Then this arrived today:

I hope my friends, family, and colleagues remember who I am, because I am not likely to be mentally present for anyone or anything until I've finished it.

If that weren't enough, the FFVII Remake opening goes a long way toward compensating for the fact that it's no longer coming out on my birthday. Then there was the Castlevania 3 trailer, which, OMG.

And then.

AND THEN.

And then came today's little announcement of a Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay reveal in ten days.

To say that I am OVER THE MOON about this would be a slight understatement.

Full disclosure: I have both Divinity games. My friends love them. I have not managed to play more than a few hours of either before moving on to something else. But I am completely sold by the genuine, enthusiastic geekery of the Larian crew in their promo videos. And I am so, so excited for this game, I am going to go nuts when it's finally out, and I cannot wait to see what next Thursday's reveal brings.

これで以上です。

( Or a bard, or a paladin, or a rogue... )

これで以上です。